Saturday, May 28, 2011

The songs on Hope is for People are classic pop punk - fast, frantic, and fun, regardless of the subject matter. One of the many things that punk music is really good at is wrapping up difficult emotions in an unbeatable sense of joy and abject fucking hope, and Mixtapes do both really well. § ruckus

Friday, May 27, 2011

Here is my latest instalment of covers from around the planet. I am feeling soggy these days, so my selections might reflect my tone... I have started building my boat, I hope you are all doing the same - any day now the river banks will unleash a torrent of water and waste our hearts away.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

At home in the wilderness is the last album of the spanish instrumental band Nodding by the Fire. You can download it for free here and watch live videos in Acordes Urbanos. Awesome album; A great weekender record.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Genre: Indie PopTour / Home“Dear everyone I ever really knew,” sings Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull on “Deer”, the opening track of the band’s newest and most daring effort, Simple Math. Easy guitar layers reside underneath Hull’s voice as the album begins to build before leading the listener on a 45-minute journey. An album built upon its predecessors, Simple Math is easy to love, particularly for any listener familiar with the band’s sound. Although this is the Atlanta quintet’s third official release, Simple Math is refreshing, with tracks that are remarkably accessible and lyrics that leave the listener saying, “Wait—I do feel like that.”

Genre: Indie FolkHome / BlogOld Calf formed as a duo in the small, but musically vibrant town of Charlottesville, VA by Ned Oldham (The Anomoanon, Palace Music) and accordionist Marty Metcalfe, slowly accruing members on route to recording their debut album. Michael Clem (bass, mandola, dead-on harmonies) and Brian Caputo(percussion) round out the group of Southern gentlemen, who tightened up their sound rehearsing in Ned's garage, and performing around town on weekend nights... While Will Oldham has spent two decades cultivating a certain cryptic obscurity as the leader of Palace and under the name Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, his brother and former sideman, Ned Oldham, became obscure the old-fashioned way: by keeping a low profile while crafting steady, understated folk-rock. Ned’s long-running band The Anomoanon has given way to a new outfit called Old Calf, but if its debut album, Borrow A Horse, is any indication, he hasn’t changed his stripes.